Kylie has gone through a tumultuous few months. She split from Spanish model Velencoso after five years, and also parted ways with her long-time management company. She has since signed for Jay-Z’s Roc Nation.

In an exclusive interview with the Standard, she said: “I must be okay after my break-up. Yes, I was very sad for a while, as you are, but now I think distraction is a good tonic.

“It wasn’t a nasty break-up by any means. I feel like I’m coming out of it. There has been a lot of changes.

“I’m trying to accept, embrace and move on. I’m in good spirits and I recognise I’m in good spirits. Normally you don’t do that.

“You know what I feel like? I’m riding the wave. And last year was paddling, paddling, not quite getting there.”

Kylie presided over a raucous evening, performing three songs before hosting bingo and karaoke sessions.

Kiss Me Once, due out next month, will be her 12th studio album. It comes four years after her last album, Aphrodite, and two years after she celebrated 25 years in showbusiness with a series of events called K25.

She said: “I had a true epiphany. I think it came from celebrating K25, which was a wonderful thing. But I sort of reached a point where I just thought, ‘I’m closing that chapter’ and I am at a point in my life where I just feel like I need a new landscape. I know I love what I’m doing, but what I want to do is do it better. I was sitting in my front room with a friend of mine, my assistant, and it hit me then.

“I said, ‘I know what I have to do’. Now there must have been a lot of things leading up to that, but it was very clear, I was very calm about it and I never experienced anything like that before.

“It’s cool. Everything is clear and calm and cool. I’m working so hard but I’m in such good spirits and I’m hoping that’s translating into what I’m doing.”

Kylie plans to tour with her new album, although she admitted it will be less extravagant than her Aphrodite Tour. She said: “It won’t be flamboyant. There’s always a certain level of that with me.

“I think Aphrodite was great but you couldn’t put more bells and whistles on it. Then I did the Anti Tour which was totally stripped back, so now I will probably find the middle ground. Streamlined.”